Video within. Fairly cool description of the plastic mannequins' Arduino-driven "conversation" program that cause them to talk back depending on how long they've been "listening" to each other, even with parameters for ignoring one another. "The act never reaches a conclusion and it is performed in a non-deterministic way," Cherouvim told The Creators Project. "Their language is incomprehensible, causing the viewer to lose interest in the conversation and politics all together." Sounds like modern politics to me!

OK, this is pretty crazy. They genetically modified food poisoning to only seek out "low oxygen tension" cells, which are a signifying characteristic of tumors, causing them only to attack cancerous tumors. Apparently this has a 20% success rate - over basically nothing. Fucking science!

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All this bad news aside, I bet a robot can't automate Glitchet. So take that! Actually, someone could probably build an automatic article sourcer and a cool art-finder like Archillect, and then I'd be out of a gig... Well, you'll never take away my bemused-to-snide remarks! You gotta employ a human for that! Unless you apply some natural language processing... Uh, excuse me. I'm going to go ... be anxious...

OK, besides that, I just wanted to tell you that I really, really appreciate you reading Glitchet. Not just because you should share it with your friends, but also because it makes me feel like I'm not the only one out here who's interested in this crazy stuff, whether it's wild art, technology, robots coming to devour our livelihoods, or, um, I don't know, future-driven anxiety. So, thanks. <3

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